Macrothelidae

Macrothelidae Temporal range: Cenomanian–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Female Macrothele gigas
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Clade:	Avicularioidea
Family:	Macrothelidae Simon, 1892 [1]
Genera
Macrothele Vacrothele † Promacrothele

Macrothelidae is a family of mygalomorph spiders, split off from the family Hexathelidae in 2018. It contains three genera, Macrothele, ^[1] Vacrothele ^[2] and the extinct Promacrothele. ^[3]

Genera

• Macrothele Ausserer, 1871 Europe, Africa, Asia
• Vacrothele Tang & Yang, 2022 China
• Promacrothele Burmese amber, Myanmar, mid Cretaceous.

References

1. "Family Macrothelidae Simon,1892", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2018-05-15
2. Tang, Ya-Ni; Wu, Ya-Ying; Zhao, Yu; Yang, Zi-Zhong (2022-04-13). "Description of a new genus and two new species of the funnel-web mygalomorph (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Macrothelidae) from China with notes on taxonomic amendments" . Zootaxa. 5125 (5): 513–535. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5125.5.3. ISSN   1175-5334.
3. Tang, Ya-Ni; Peng, An-Cheng; Wu, Zi-Ying; Engel, Michael S.; Yang, Zi-Zhong; Liu, Yu (July 2023). "Mygalomorph spiders in mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber (Araneae: Mygalomorphae), northern Myanmar: A new genus and species of the family Macrothelidae" . Cretaceous Research. 147 105514. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105514.